Racism Culture Markets explores the connections between culturalrepresentations of race and their historical institutional and global formsof expression and imp... » 

Racism Culture Markets explores the connections between culturalrepresentations of race and their historical institutional and global formsof expression and impact.John Gabriel examines the current fixation with market place philosophies interms of the crisis in antiracist politics and concern over questions ofcultural identity. He explores issues such as the continuing relevance of termsblack as a basis for selfdefinition the need to think about identities inmore fluid and complex ways and the need to develop a much more explicitdiscussion of the construction of whiteness and white identities.Racism Culture Markets brings together a range of historical andcontemporary case studies including the Rushdie affair the Gulf War thedebate around fostering adoption and domestic violence separate schoolingthe service economy and its employment practices tourism in the Third Worldthe Bhopal chemical disaster and racism in New Europe. His case studies alsoconsider the role played by contemporary media and popular culture in thesedebates including film television music and the press. «